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A winter storm on the way

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A fox in the meadow on a snow day.

Take some time today to move your body.  Our bodies are a gift and it is important to take care of them.  We can choose to move in so many ways.  Find what works best for you and spend the time to give your body some love and movement.  Your mind will thank you by becoming clearer, too.  It is easy to stay put, but movement makes the day feel richer, our bodies feel stronger, and our minds more aware.  How will you move today?

~ Emily Silva, Sunrise Gratitude, January 14

You have a spirit of fire within you.  It is the light that shines within.  It fuels your passion and keeps you going when you know something is important.  Each morning, you have the chance to calibrate your light as the sun rises.  Imagine your inner fire rising within.  Will it be a bright flame that burns slowly and evenly or a burst of energy, creating a shock of illumination?  Our lights may differ every day, but they never go out.

~ Emily Silva, Sunrise Gratitude, January 22

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As the sun sets on this year

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Monday’s sunset, just after we returned from the Bogs.

In alchemy, winter comes first. It is the beginning. The origin. As winter casts its blanket of stillness across the land, we naturally turn inward. The mind and heart settle into Earth’s darkest season. From this place of quiet, a single flame reconnects us to the mystery of our existence and the miracle of the breath. When the Winter card appears, it indicates we’re suspended in Mother Earth’s pause. This is not the time for doing, going or getting. Magic is afoot under the surface. In the glimmering snow and sparkling ice, we see winter’s water in crystalline form, each droplet a prism into the mystic realm. Don’t get caught up in the gloom or isolation of this season. Rather, spin toward the sacred light.

~ Kim Krans, The Wild Unknown Alchemy deck

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A Monday meander: Not the last

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A December sunset from the dock.

This is my prayer: May we forgive ourselves and each other when we fall short, and may we all have the courage, faith and resolve to get up again and keep going, to once again ask the deeper questions and dare to touch that vulnerable place inside, to open the heart. May we have the courage to feel the human pain we all share. At the very heart of that pain is a jewel beyond all price. It is the bottomless presence at the heart of everything and the boundless awareness beholding it all, and it is the love that is trying to come forth even in the most broken and unskillful ways. Once we have discovered this jewel, this unconditional love, our work is in opening to it again and again, cultivating a growing faith in it and a faithfulness to it, and forgiving ourselves and others when we fail.

~ Joan Tollifson

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All good things…

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Somewhere along the way in October.

There are no privileged locations. If you stay put, your place may become a holy center, not because it gives you special access to the divine, but because in your stillness you hear what might be heard anywhere. All there is to see can be seen from anywhere in the universe, if you know how to look.

—Scott Russell Sanders, Staying Put

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A Monday meander: My joy is heavy

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Reflections of another time, another place.

To journey without being changed is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and be transformed by the journey is to be a pilgrim.

— Mark Nepo

Let change be a marker of possibility instead of something to be afraid of. Let change be the vehicle for getting closer to your truest self, to the kind of world you want to see, to all that has been asking to be released from your grip. Trust change can be a tool of alchemy, a doorway to more truth, more love, more presence.

— Lisa Olivera

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What the cards say

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Standing out on a rainy day.

What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures practiced careful rituals of approach. An encounter of depth and spirit was preceded by careful preparation.

When we approach with reverence, great things decide to approach us. Our real life comes to the surface and its light awakens the concealed beauty in things. When we walk on the earth with reverence, beauty will decide to trust us. The rushed heart and arrogant mind lack the gentleness and patience to enter that embrace.

― John O’Donohue, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace

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Circumbendibus and other words

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Round and round the spider goes.

“Circumbendibus” means an indirect or roundabout way or process, often used humorously. It’s a mock-Latin term, combining “circum” (round about) and “bend” with the Latin plural ending “-ibus”. Essentially, it’s a synonym for circumlocution, a way of speaking or writing in a complicated, indirect manner.

— AI overview of the word

circumbendibus:  in a roundabout way; an indirect manner of traveling, speaking, or writing; circumlocution

— Robin Devoe, Epic English Words

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